“He's [Trump] said terrible things about women, terrible things about the military. I don't understand why people are for him.”— Barbara Bush, cnn.com
“Donald Trump doesn't give many answers to how he would solve problems. He sort of makes faces and says insulting things.”— Barbara Bush, cnn.com
“Rocket man [Kim Jong-un] is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”— Donald Trump, vox.com
“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”— Donald Trump, vox.com
“Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“Asserting that Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for this is, at best, mixed.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“White Americans elected an orcish reality-TV star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“How can a man who cannot responsibly manage a Twitter account hold the power to destroy the planet? How can a man who cannot convey a consistent message about anything convey a consistent message of nuclear deterrence to an unstable actor with nukes? How can a man as impulsive and vindictive as Trum…”— Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, lawfareblog.com
“Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. What-- You're saying it's a falsehood. And they're giving Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.”— Kellyanne Conway, washingtonpost.com
“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby…”— Alexander Hamilton, founders.archives.gov
“Mr. President: Your bullying hasn't worked before and it won't work now. No one is above the law.”— Richard Blumenthal, twitter.com
“I cannot explain the president's obsession with me or any of the other targets of his tweets.”— Richard Blumenthal, msnbc.com